I rarely ever dress up my yo-yos, so there’s no reason to strip them.
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I wouldnt think there would be a commonality here.
Posts, Bearing Seat, etc. Are for the most part standardized now days. Those dimensions wont change much.
I would venture to say Axel Length would be a more pronounced meteic.
My guess would be shorter Axel systems are more prone to strip than longer.
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Honestly I don’t know. I have been throwing for a while and I still don’t even really know what it means to “strip your axle”
You could be right. Until you’ve removed your existing internal threading you haven’t stripped it. Let’s ask an expert @fatguysnacks247
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I’ve stripped one yoyo by attempting to snap start it using my foot out of all of the yoyos I’ve ever owned lol
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Yoyos strip because unfortunately there is a trade off of longevity for performance when you design a yoyo with a super short axle. Aluminum isn’t meant to only have 3-4 threads of engagement, which is how many competition oriented yoyos are designed. The flat hub and reduced centerweight leads to a super short axle and all the force distributed on those few threads in each half. If you use your yoyo often as is intended and do not only have it as a display piece, then the yoyo will be more likely to strip no matter how careful you are when you take apart and put the yoyo back together compared to a yoyo with a longer axle.
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Slightly off topic, but what is the most built to last, make it through the Armageddon, yoyo you have ever tried?
I suppose wood and plastic would need to be taken out of the equation for longevity purposes.
If you were stuck on an island for the rest of your life with one yoyo and tons of coconut trees, and the yoyo was your only tool to crack them open.
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My Dressel Designs assassin seems pretty indestructible, I’d take it into battle 
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Any yoyo with side effects really. Those are indestructible.
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Titanium with side effects
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My magic yoyo V3 got ran over twice. Didn’t survive the second one. The first time the 8mm axle it came with got stripped. I noticed the threads near the top were stripped while the bottom ones stayed intact. The yoyo would keep spinning or fall apart. Input a 12mm and it worked semi okay except for the small gap the string could fall through. I “beefcaked” the yoyo and used dummy thick string from Bad Wolfe co. This lasted for a good year. I was doing 5a with it too. I dropped it and off it went into traffic…It took a fat beating. 12mm axle got stripped. I also would walk the dog on concrete in order to grind out the sharp dings. I loved that yoyo.
I’m pretty sure the Dif-e-Yo Monster could crack open a coconut with a forward pass.
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Is the BTH cheating?
And here all this time I’ve been doing it wrong. Great.
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I have to agree the One Drop yo-yos are probably your best bet when it comes to durability by design. There are also a lot of great titanium yoyos that are practically indestructible.
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